To assist veterans and their families outside the
hospital, to ensure a suitable standard of living, whether it be through
financial support, moral support, or by simple acts of kindness.
The founders of the Ladies Auxiliary VFW placed the
greatest emphasis on a program developed to assist veterans returning
from battle and assimilating back into to civilian life. Today the
organization continues to help those coming directly from the
battlefield or from the hospital as they try to re-establish themselves
and maintain normal, happy lives with their families and their communities.
One of the most successful projects under this program is Operation
Uplink. VFW and Ladies Auxiliary members across the country raise money to
purchase long-distance telephone cards for veterans and overseas soldiers.
Thousands of cards go to deploying units to Iraq, into care packages
and to VA Medical Centers to help heroes call home. www.operationuplink.org
For
the second year, the Ladies Auxiliary VFW will be offering four Continuing
Education Scholarships in each Membership Conference. Members, their spouses
and their children are eligible for one of four $1,000 scholarships.
The Ladies Auxiliary is now trying to make this scholarship self-sustaining.